sexual abuse

sexual abuse - a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat; "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"

Vangheluwe is the only admitted sexual abuser among the disgraced bishops and risks being defrocked if the Vatican should decide to impose the stiff punishment that Catholic critics of the hierarchy say is needed.

Before the jury retired to consider their verdicts,Judge Dutton told them the prosecution case was that Lloyd was a serial sexual abuser of girls ``having cultivated and groomed them, then betrayed their trust''.

His cheerleaders, whether the former Sheffield United player likes it or not, illustrate the horrific effect of returning an unrepentant sexual abuser to the ranks of well-paid sports stars - he is applauded by the dregs of society.

The Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, sitting with Lord Justice Longmore and Lady Justice Smith, said that, as Fr Clonan appeared to have been a "predatory sexual abuser of boys", it was likely that Maga's evidence was true.

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